Closing Video

In the closing film, an Iraqi named Muhammed Amer says American soldiers mutilated the bodies of militiamen they killed. He also describes a raid on his house in which soldiers told his mother they would rape the family’s girls unless she gave them a bag with all of their money, about $13,000. A general told them, “choose between your money and your honor,” says Amer, “So we bought our honor.” The target of the raid was Amer’s brother who was an accused insurgent. The brother and Amer’s 60-year-old father were both beaten. “We didn’t see any humanity in them, only cruelty,” says Amer.